[Noumenon]

My place is almost exclusively jack pine, fir and tamarack. The latter two is all I'll consider for firewood. If you've got a decent trailer, a sturdy off road vehicle and decent road conditions, you can do pretty well cleaning up logging company leftovers. I run two saws - a Echo Timberwolf with either 20" or 24" bars and little Poulan 16" limbing saw. Gets the job done.

Thumbs up - I'll be 70 this year.

[Arlis]

Can’t burn anything but hardwood in our $4,000 fireplace furnace that heats our 5,000 sq.ft. log home. Even at lowest setting non-hardwoods would overheat and burn way too fast.

My saws are a 20 year old 16” Stihl 021 and 3 year old 24” Husqvarna 460 Rancher (60.3cc, 3.6hp) that I got to replace my old workhorse, commercial-grade Husqvarna 359 (59cc, 3.9hp) that was destroyed in a freak accident that made me sick. The 460 is a slightly larger engine, and seems as powerful as the 359, but don’t think it is commercial grade like the 359 was.

I use a Dremel to sharpen my own chains.